A degenerated melodrama by Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core.
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SYNOPSIS.
This film is an excavation experience among the forms of the fictional film,. Emblem of cinema as an imitation of life, under his polished surface melodrama hides the restlessness of life itself. Starting from the cliché of the woman crying over a lost love, a journey begins in search of the background radiation of fiction cinema. One must lose himself infinitely, indefinitely, in a multitude of images, sounds, crystal universes on the brink of exploding in molecular landscapes and subatomic labyrinths. Beyond this point, image ceases to be representative, becoming pulsation, weaving fields of modulated tension, revealing the vibrations of the unseen, of the unshown, the murmur behind the images, that surpasses story and forms. Cinema as language of the invisible, whisper that goes beyond logic and reason, breathing through the pores and the creases of image as simulation.
The film is composed by pre-existing images: like karst rivers they cropped up in the light and returned down to follow invisible (and yet present) paths. Pictures were subjected to a particular treatment, which included multiple re-shooting sessions, and analogue processes (handmade masks, physical intervention on the images, etc..) combined with digital processes.
Music pieces are taken from the original movies, with the exception of a theme from the second movement “Un Bal” of Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique”.
Concrete, instrumental and vocal sounds are also part of the music material.
Signal processing is used to trace paths between Music, speech, and noise. Three parts of the same score. Sound and Image are treated like two instruments playing the same composition.
AWARDS.
Special Jury Prize at 31st Torino Film Festival (Torino, Italy)
Best Remix Film Award at MashRome International Film Festival (Rome, Italy)
Best Video-Aural Interaction Award at MADATAC 06 (Madrid, Spain)
BIO.
Fabio Scacchioli was born in Teramo in 1979. He studied in Perugia and Madrid, graduating with a thesis on the semiotics of experimental cinema. His research focuses on the relationship between memory, perception and thought. He works with film, video and installations.
Vincenzo Core was born in Giulianova in 1982. He studied electronic music at the “L. Refice” conservatory of Frosinone. Since 2008 composes for video, dance, installations and performances. His expressive research concentrates on the relationships between various compositional materials to trace paths of meaning, and to express the complexity of Self.
FILMOGRAPHY.
2009. dead SEEquences (Asolo International Art Film Festival - Italy; Go Short International Short Film Festival, Netherlands; EMAF European Media Art Festival - Germany).
2011. Miss Candace Hilligoss' flickering halo: 68th Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti - in competition; 20th Curtas Vila do Conde - Portugal; Lausanne Underground Film Festival - Switzerland, Award for the best short film; Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Germany; 20th Chicago Underground Film Festival - USA; Alternative Film and Video Festival - Belgrade, Serbia, Award for the Best Film; Timishort Film Festival - Timisoara, Romania, Award for the Best Experimental Film.
2012. Spectrography of a battle: 20th L'Alternativa - Festival de Cine Independent de Barcelona - Spain; 21th Chicago Underground Film Festival - USA; 29th Hamburg International Short Film Festival - Germany; Festival Cine/B - Santiago, Chile.
2013. No more lonely nights: 31st Torino Film Festival - Italy, Special Jury Prize; 58th BFI London Film Festival; Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Germany; NEXT Film Festival - Bucharest, Romania; MashRome International Film Festival - Rome, Italy, Award for the Best Found Footage Film; MADATAC06 - Madrid, Spain, Best Video-Aural Interaction Award; Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival - USA.
